So there is a shared access driveway in between our house and our next door neighbour’s, it leads to some garages at the back of our houses which neither of us to park cars in and we just use them as storage units. Since we moved in our neighbours frequently park their visitors cars on the shared driveway and basically use it as an extra parking space, this has never been much of an issue to us as like I said we don’t use the garage in our garden.
As such we very infrequently sometimes also use the shared driveway for the same reason (we might use it a few times a month where as they use it multiple times a week), however, the last two times we did this our neighbours have complained to us and asked us to move our car as they want to use it.
First time their brother came round and was quite rude and complained he wanted to park his car further down the drive near the garage to do work on it. We apologised repeatedly and offered to move it and he just went on and on about it. The next time my wife parked my car on it briefly to get her car off the drive and the neighbour came out and asked how long it was going to be on there and could we move it asap.
I was happy for us both to use it as overflow parking since we both don’t use it to access our garages, but they seem to be under the impression they have the right to use it whenever they want and we don’t, so I would like to stick to the rules and neither of us park on it at all, as I’m feeling the situation has become unbalanced. Would I be unreasonable to ask this?